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[Mister Rog]

Apologies, but I need to call bullshit...

Afterall, elections are NOT decided on Facebook/Twitter etc, but at the Ballot box... Regardless of what the BBC agenda police et al would wish you to believe

Six months ago I would have agreed with you, but this belief is exactly why Corbyn did rather well and Theresa May did rather badly. During the election and for some time after my facebook page was bombarded with Corbyn stuff, "suggested" groups and whole load of other crap. I have no idea why 

[STEMO]

My faceache page didn't have all of this stuff. Oh, wait, I don't have a faceache page.

[STEMO]

If the Tories ever win a thumping majority again they should introduce a law that a person cant vote until they have paid a minimum of 5 consecutive years of income tax. That would go a long way towards solving this kind of problem.

While we're at it lets take the vote away from women and those who don't own property.  In fact lets disenfranchise about 80% of the population and only let white indigenous property owning males over the age of 40 vote.  Or we could invent a time machine and turn the clock back to 1817?   

If only these people, who accuse the left of being extreme, could hear themselves. It's bitterness and hatred bordering on hysteria.

[STEMO]

Oh...and as for breaching election rules....again..
Tories deny using Neath call centre to breach election law
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-40378185

[Sir Tigger KC]

Apologies, but I need to call bullshit...

Afterall, elections are NOT decided on Facebook/Twitter etc, but at the Ballot box... Regardless of what the BBC agenda police et al would wish you to believe

Six months ago I would have agreed with you, but this belief is exactly why Corbyn did rather well and Theresa May did rather badly. During the election and for some time after my facebook page was bombarded with Corbyn stuff, "suggested" groups and whole load of other crap. I have no idea why 

Same here.  It seems that a few of my friends on Facebook are Corbynistas who shared loads of stuff and often reacted very badly if challenged. 

I think it's getting to the point that people just ignore it rather than face the inevitable abuse, and thus the old saying 'Tell a lie often enough..... ' becomes fact. 

[STEMO]

Apologies, but I need to call bullshit...

Afterall, elections are NOT decided on Facebook/Twitter etc, but at the Ballot box... Regardless of what the BBC agenda police et al would wish you to believe

Six months ago I would have agreed with you, but this belief is exactly why Corbyn did rather well and Theresa May did rather badly. During the election and for some time after my facebook page was bombarded with Corbyn stuff, "suggested" groups and whole load of other crap. I have no idea why 

Same here.  It seems that a few of my friends on Facebook are Corbynistas who shared loads of stuff and often reacted very badly if challenged. 

I think it's getting to the point that people just ignore it rather than face the inevitable abuse, and thus the old saying 'Tell a lie often enough..... ' becomes fact. 

Abuse if you disagree with the socialists, ridicule if you disagree with the tories and dismissed as a liberal if you go down the middle.
Hasn't it always been like this?

[Sir Tigger KC]

If only these people, who accuse the left of being extreme, could hear themselves. It's bitterness and hatred bordering on hysteria.

That's extremism on both sides of the argument to be honest..... 

Abuse if you disagree with the socialists, ridicule if you disagree with the tories and dismissed as a liberal if you go down the middle.
Hasn't it always been like this?

Yes but social media, Facebook, Twitter, OOF etc has given people a platform to promote their views, and with little or no regulation the 'Keyboard Warriors' have a free hand to dish out the abuse to any who disagree.     This didn't happen before, the people just believed what they read in the Sun or Mirror and maybe had a argument down the pub. 

I don't have a problem with people sharing their beliefs, dreams and hopes online, after all we live in a free country.  What I do have a problem with is the often nasty reaction if you challenge or disagree with them. 

[STEMO]

If only these people, who accuse the left of being extreme, could hear themselves. It's bitterness and hatred bordering on hysteria.

That's extremism on both sides of the argument to be honest..... 

Abuse if you disagree with the socialists, ridicule if you disagree with the tories and dismissed as a liberal if you go down the middle.
Hasn't it always been like this?

Yes but social media, Facebook, Twitter, OOF etc has given people a platform to promote their views, and with little or no regulation the 'Keyboard Warriors' have a free hand to dish out the abuse to any who disagree.     This didn't happen before, the people just believed what they read in the Sun or Mirror and maybe had a argument down the pub. 

I don't have a problem with people sharing their beliefs, dreams and hopes online, after all we live in a free country.  What I do have a problem with is the often nasty reaction if you challenge or disagree with them. 

That's fair enough, but you're not obliged to get involved. You can just avoid all the shite, go down the polling station and make your mark.
My mind was made up from the day the election was announced, and nothing that I saw or read made any difference.

[Sir Tigger KC]

That's fair enough, but you're not obliged to get involved. You can just avoid all the shite, go down the polling station and make your mark.
My mind was made up from the day the election was announced, and nothing that I saw or read made any difference.

Yes, but sometimes I can't help myself, especially if the shite is obviously shite! 

[Doctor Gollum]

My faceache page didn't have all of this stuff. Oh, wait, I don't have a faceache page.

Ditto...

Perhaps this is why I find the whole notion so very peculiar

Mr Corbyn needs to have a nasty accident in the not so distant future... either that or social media needs censoring/shutting down.

[Nick W]

Apologies, but I need to call bullshit...

Afterall, elections are NOT decided on Facebook/Twitter etc, but at the Ballot box... Regardless of what the BBC agenda police et al would wish you to believe

Six months ago I would have agreed with you, but this belief is exactly why Corbyn did rather well and Theresa May did rather badly. During the election and for some time after my facebook page was bombarded with Corbyn stuff, "suggested" groups and whole load of other crap. I have no idea why 

it's a travesty when one party gets its finger out and actually works at something that's effective, and the other is so complacent they barely bother to campaign and lose what ought to be have been a sure thing.


Perhaps we should misapply a bunch of labels in the hope of being insulting?

[Varche]

And one party spent (I think) £2000 on social media and the other over a £million.

[Sir Tigger KC]

In other news it's emerging that the food vendors at Glastonbury Festival are in uproar after Jeremy Corbyn fed the crowds with 5 loaves and 2 fish! 

[Doctor Gollum]

Contrary to populist media hype, the Conservatives didn't lose, and Labour didn't win. They (being Labour), and us (the royal us) would do well to remember that and get on with the task in hand... ie securing our future outside the EU rather than constantly trying to undermine the process of government at every turn.

[STEMO]

In other news it's emerging that the food vendors at Glastonbury Festival are in uproar after Jeremy Corbyn fed the crowds with 5 loaves and 2 fish! 

That wouldn't be that hard actually. They survive the festival on copious amounts of drugs and alcohol, and only realise they're hungry when they get home.